Blazon: I rødt tre gull valmuer stilt i trepass. In English: Gules three
poppies in pall.
Approved by the royal resolution of 9 February 1990 after a drawing by Arvid
Sveen.
A local school
web site explains that the depicted poppy is the Læstadius poppy (actually
named in English the arctic poppy, Papaver laestadianum), named after the
botanist Lars Levi Læstadius. The species is endemic in the border region of
Treriksrøysa (Three-Country Cairn), the three-point of Norway, Sweden and
Finland, and the pall (Y-shape) in the arms also symbolise the three-county
meeting point.Željko Heimer, 17 November 2015